Good News, Bad News

First the good news: the cat has settled in well and I've done the ironing.

Next the bad news: about eleven o'clock this morning we were hit by an extremely strong gust of wind and it carried the upstairs pergola off! Although gusts of 70 km/hr were forecast I think this must have been the strongest gust we have experienced here. The whole structure, not just the vinyl covering but the heavy wooden supports as well, was ripped from it's moorings and taken up over the roof, over the tall olive trees, across the road and over the power lines and then dumped on the vacant plot behind the house. It must have been quite a sight flying away, oh for a video! It's been raining before, during and since the event so we've not been able to assess the whole damage, at least it missed the chimney. This has been the worst weather of the winter so far but at least no-one died, (and it's not cold).

OMG where's the pergola gone?

Thought we'd never find it!